FUGRO Joins Silver Sponsors to Support Premier Event of 2019

Blog Post
September 17, 2018

The SubOptic 2019 team is thrilled to welcome the newest Silver Sponsor – Fugro USA. Fugro USA joins more than 18 subsea telecoms companies in its commitment to the industry and this premier event.

SubOptic 2019 is shaping up to be an extraordinary event with unprecedented response to the Call for Papers and Abstract submission, over 25 exhibitors at the Exhibition Hall and a first-class line-up of Master Class Speakers.

Fugro USA President, Edward Saade said, “With a fleet of about 40 owned survey vessels around the world, Fugro is perfectly positioned to support the unrelenting global development of the undersea telecom cable market. SubOptic is the most important triennial event of the industry and a must for Fugro to show our commitment to developing the industry.”

This triennial event will be held in New Orleans, 8-11 April. With nearly 1,000 attendees expected from across the globe, this is the largest event organized by the industry, for the industry. Topics have been announced and can be found here as well as Master Classes.

About Fugro;

Fugro offers expert assistance throughout all phases of the design of a submarine cable to include desktop studies, site visits, route selection and route survey.

Fugro’s accurate desktop studies assist in cable route planning and are dedicated to selecting a preliminary route and highlighting areas of concerns. The desktop study step is critical to achieve a cost-effective cable route, which accommodates existing use of the seabed, yet gives maximum protection from any external threat to the cable. The desktop study provides the foundation for the second phase of system planning, the route survey.

Fugro’s global resources provide the optimum survey system in any location, for any water depth. Fugro’s dedicated survey vessels are equipped with a variety of swath bathymetry and seabed imagery systems. These include EM 122 for deep water and EM 710 for intermediate and shallow water depths, among other systems. The permanent fleet is deployed worldwide and complemented by vessels of opportunity mobilized with state of the art bathymetric and side scan sonar systems. In critical continental shelf regions, where cable burial is required for protection, Fugro provides near-bottom side scan sonar to delineate surface features and high resolution sub-bottom reflection profiling to characterize the structure under the seafloor.

About SubOptic 2019

SubOptic 2019 will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA on 8-11 April. A triennial event, SubOptic is the longest running and most comprehensive conference series in the world for the submarine fiber industry. For more on program topics and registration details click here.